Research Projects

 

1. Overall Social-ecological Science and Management Plan

Outline science plan

Project management plan

 

2. Climate change, land use and vegetation dynamics

Project 1 - Land use land cover change and fire history (1960-2020)

Project 2 - Ecoclimatic modelling

Project 3 - Early life history functional traits related to the regeneration of native and exotic conifer species

Project 4 -  Ecohydrology

 

3. Global change and biogeochemistry

Project 1 -   The carbon and nitrogen cycles in mixed Araucaria forest and Pinus plantations

Project 2 -   The dynamics of invasive species and their impact on biogeochemical cycles

Project 3 -   The dynamics of nitrogen in the atmosphere-vegetation-soil system

 

4. Ecosystem services and participatory management

Project 1 -   Ecosystem services - a baseline evaluation

Project 2 -   Land use impacts on the habitat quality and habitat risks for felids

Project 3 -   Optimization of the restoration of Pinus plantations by minimising impacts on ecosystem services

Project 4 -   Multiple use of ecosystem services: managing the impacts of tourism on conservation objectives

Project 5 -   Optimising fire management

 

5. Biodiversity and trophic structure - climate and land cover

Project 1 -   Climate change impacts on multiple levels of community organisation in Bromelia tanks

Project 2 -   Soil microbial ecology of Araucaria angustifolia

Project 3 -   Spatiotemporal use of habitats by felids

Project 4 -   Inventory of Lepidopteras

Project 5 -  Aerial transport and dynamics of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Project 6 -   Baseline survey of biodiversity

Project 7 - Bird survey

 

Long-term data collection activities

  Meteorology (AWS, historic data curation)

  Fluxes of energy and matter between biosphere and atmosphere)

  Atmospheric chemistry

  Water physico-chemistry (precipitation, stream water)

  Soil (mapping, physio-chemistry, soil solution)

  Vegetation (biometrics, permanent plots, historic data)

  Visitation

 

Associated projects

Lifeplan

South American montane forests in a warming climate